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Job Title: 
Graphic Designer
Important note: This is for a visual design position, NOT a UX Specialist position.
Candidate must have strong graphic design skills, including experience creating infographics.

Application Deadline: 
January 22, 2024

Location: 
Worldwide

About NN/g:
Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) is a UX consultancy trusted by leading organizations world-wide to provide reliable guidance on user experience. NN/g provides evidence-based UX insights in the form of research findings in articles, in-depth training, and consulting. 

We’re a small, fully remote company (fewer than 40 people, currently). We believe deeply in our mission to help the world learn about UX, and enjoy working with our curious and passionate coworkers. Once or twice a year, we travel to a fun location to spend time together in-person and discuss ideas to improve our work and our company. (Our most recent offsite locations include Jackson Hole and San Diego.)

When we hire people, they tend to stick around for a while. Our average employee retention is 7 years.
 

Role Description:
We’re looking for a talented graphic designer to join our small design team. You’ll work with a group of designers to translate complex concepts into visualizations that help our audience learn about UX. 

We’re looking for someone with: 

• Very strong visual and conceptual design skills
• At least some knowledge of UX
• The ability and willingness to collaborate with UX researchers 

Our new teammate will work on: 

• Data visualizations 
• Creating templates for graphs and charts
• Concept visualizations and infographics 
• Book design and visuals
• Typesetting 
• Storyboarding
   

Responsibilities:

• Grasping in-progress UX concepts and exploring methods for visually representing them
• Understanding constraints, requirements, and considerations of deliverables 
• Sketching concepts to communicate ideas
• Collaborating with authors, researchers, other designers, and videographers to improve visualizations
• Producing high-fidelity, polished outputs: icons, infographics, and posters 
• Designing a visual system for physical publications 
• Exploring new tools, including artificial image generation
   

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in graphic design (or visual design), UX, or similar field
• A degree in design: graphic design, visual design, interaction design, communication design, or a related design discipline
• Strong visual design skills: color, typography, imagery, and iconography
• Excellent ability to translate research insights and frameworks into a consumable, compelling visual  
• Able to seek input, iterate, and quickly adapt to feedback
• Advanced proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite
• Fluent in English (advanced business proficiency)
• Available to work during US timezones
   

Application Process: 

1. Submit your resume and portfolio in our application form
2. Design exercise #1 
3. 1-2 interviews 
4. Design exercise #2
5. Final interview
    

Compensation & Perks:
Base pay is just one component of NN/g’s total compensation. Salary will range from 65k - 100k USD based on experience and location. We're committed to ensuring competitive salary and benefits that are aligned with each country's requirements. These benefits are for U.S. employees and may vary to comply with local rules.

Position benefits include:

• 401(k) with employer contributions
• ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)
• HSA (Health Savings Account)
• Health benefits
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible work arrangements
• Performance bonuses
   

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, discrimination-free environment where every staff member’s distinctive contributions are valued. We support diversity and inclusivity in our workplace, and reject discrimination based on race, religion, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.